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As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.
Freeman Dyson
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Freeman Dyson
Age: 96 †
Born: 1923
Born: December 15
Died: 2020
Died: February 28
Mathematician
Nuclear Physicist
Physicist
Professor
Theoretical Physicist
Crowthorne
Berkshire
Freeman John Dyson
Freeman J. Dyson
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Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny.
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